Top Comments: the Now and Then edition

The final Beatles song ever (just released today) after-the-jump.

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Today was the release of the final Beatles song ever: based on vocals by John Lennon in the 1970’s, an unsuccessful attempt to record on top of it (featuring guitar work by George Harrison) in the mid-90’s … and how a famous New Zealand film director’s technological work finally made it possible to bring it all together.

Now and Then's eventful journey to fruition took place over five decades and is the product of conversations and collaborations between the four Beatles that go on to this day. The long mythologized John Lennon demo was first worked on in February 1995 by Paul, George and Ringo as part of The Beatles Anthology project but it remained unfinished, partly because of the impossible technological challenges involved in working with the vocal John had recorded on tape in the 1970s. For years it looked like the song could never be completed.

But in 2022 there was a stroke of serendipity. A software system developed by Peter Jackson and his team, used throughout the production of the documentary series Get Back, finally opened the way for the uncoupling of John’s vocal from his piano part. It marks the completion of the last recording that John, Paul and George and Ringo will get to make together.

It’s a definite introspective John Lennon song — reactions from around the world of musicians and fans is mostly positive, though not uniform. Readers, have a listen and chime in. (Top Comments is always an Open Thread, as well).

I know it's true It's all because of you And if I make it through It's all because of you

And now and then If we must start again Well, we will know for sure That I will love you

Now and then I miss you Now and then I want you to be there for me Always to return to me

I know it's true It's all because of you And if you go away I know you'll never stay

Now and then I miss you Oh, now and then I want you to be there for me

Now, on to Top Comments:

From inkstainedwretch:

In the diary by ClimateDenierRoundup about the costs to Oklahoma pensioners due to the state’s anti-’woke’ policies — in this comment by the one who knows— each sentence builds up to that great summation.

From BillInMi:

In the diary by xaxnar about the training Ukranian pilots are receiving in Tucson — I nominate this suggestion by Pogoatty. It would be awesome if they did paint their roof blue and yellow for the Ukrainian pilots training in Arizona. 

And from Ed Tracey, your faithful correspondent this evening ........

In the front-page live blog of the Trump Family trial in NYC — Mathy Kathy and Phoenix Rising start an interesting thread on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act… which seems almost antediluvian in today’s world (let along MAGA World). 

Next - enjoy jotter's wonderful (and now eternal) *PictureQuilt™* below. Just click on the picture and it will magically take you to the comment featuring that photo.

TOP PHOTOS November 1st, 2023 (NOTE: Any missing images in the Quilt were removed because (a) they were from an unapproved source that somehow snuck through in the comments, or (b) it was an image from the DailyKos Image Library which didn't have permissions set to allow others to use it.)

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